….Well, at least painting them. I’ve been trying to get some practice in before the plein air convention. I really need to paint everyday in order to keep moving forward with my work. I love the challenge of trying to capture the movement of the water in...

Jumbo Rocks campground at Joshua Tree National Park in California. An inspiring place. It made me want to paint again and I didn’t even have to leave the campsite. Some of my Paintings Life on the Edge, 9 x 12 plein air pastel painting by...

Painting Big Bend National Park, Texas, with the Outdoor Painters Society “Located way out in southwest Texas, the National Park gets its name from where the Rio Grande takes a ‘big bend’ on its journey to the Gulf of Mexico. Sometimes considered...

Heading Inland Personally, I found that Lake Havasu City was a bit of a nothing town, just there to service the many snowbird RV’ers (I don’t mean the surrounding landscape, that’s great, just the town itself). Perhaps of interest to any travelling...

Destination San Simeon, a little further south on the California coast. I couldn’t easily get to the areas of rocky beach that I saw and wanted to paint, so I stayed up on the bluffs and battled the wind. Storm Stack Companion Sometimes when I paint en plein...